Philly Bricks

To look at Philadelphia from the river, we look like any other successful city. Office buildings dominate the skyline, historic steeples com...

Spring Garden's Church of the Assumption still stands, largely gutted, facing an unfortunate and familiar fate. Despite a fate as crum...

Despite an anonymous offer to purchase the Boyd Theater from its current owners, the Historical Commission has agreed to let Live Nation dem...

Philadelphia isn't known as a nightclub kind of town. It's somewhat sad. If this were the 90s, in any other city, saving Spring Gard...

Philly.com Philadelphia's sole surviving movie palace, The Boyd Theater, is charging headfirst at the wrecking ball. Our city's ...

A huge, 112 year old church in Provo, UT destroyed by a fire in 2010 has not just been salvaged, but nearly rebuilt . Gutted of its destroye...

A common concern brought about by the possible demolition of the Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden is that it's highly unlikely ...

Spring Garden's Church of the Assumption's new owner is seeking to demolish the decaying relic. After changing hands numerous times ...

Great news from PlanPhilly on the Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden. L&I has unanimously voted to stop plans to demolish the hi...

Demanding too much or too little, preservationists have managed to leave at least two historic properties behind in the squabble. Years ago,...

The Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden has received another stay of execution. Well, not exactly. Today's decision was passed o...

While the Venturi "masterpiece" Guild House several blocks to the east was recently awarded a place on the historic register, it t...